Its been a long time since I have posted anything. I have been trying to get a HotRod ready for the paint shop. Since that's gone, I should be able to post a little more progress here. I have been jumping around a lot on this build, but there is a method to my madness. I started installing some of the body panels. I started with the side pieces and rear bumper. I then moved on to the nose and concentrated on that.

I found that there was no way to get the bottom of the nose to mount to the radiator cross bar. So I made up a bracket out of aluminum angle.





This bracket is slotted on one side and has nutserts on the other side. This allows for some adjustment up and down and left to right. The lower holes in the body are slotted as well.

Here is what the finished bracket looks like



The headlight buckets went right in with only minor trimming. I went a different route for the lower bracket mounting.
I bought these weld in studs from McMaster-carr and bonded them to the underside of the nose.



Here is what they look like installed




Using these allows me to not have the bolt passing through the nose.